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Blue sky and a Caribbean beachfront beckoned as I asked my wife and son to wait just 10 more minutes to leave our hotel room. While flipping through the channels after lunch one day on vacation two weeks ago, I came across "Hoosiers,'' a movie this son of the state always struggles to turn off, one of the three best sports flicks ever made. Sure, sunshine and water awaited us but so did the dramatic scene in which Jimmy Chitwood walks to the front of the church during a Hickory (Ind.) town meeting and announces his plan to play for the varsity basketball team conditional on coach Norman Dale staying. "I play, coach stays,'' Jimmy says. "He goes, I...

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